{"id":949215,"date":"2025-07-24T07:29:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=949215"},"modified":"2025-07-24T07:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T02:11:18","slug":"use-of-single-band-2-4ghz-wi-fi-devices-to-impact-infrastructure-scalability-sustainability-domestic-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/24\/use-of-single-band-2-4ghz-wi-fi-devices-to-impact-infrastructure-scalability-sustainability-domestic-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of single-band 2.4GHz Wi-Fi devices to impact infrastructure scalability, sustainability: Domestic group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The usage of single-band 2.4GHz-only devices or access points in the Centre&#8217;s prestigious programs such as BharatNet may impact performance, scalability and sustainability of telecom infrastructure, following top chipset vendors &#8212; Broadcom, Qualcomm, MediaTek and RealTek &#8212; discontinuing technology support, a domestic industry group said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The continued use of 2.4GHz-only Wi-Fi products in BharatNet deployments is not merely a technical issue but a strategic oversight. It negatively impacts performance, scalability and the long-term sustainability of the infrastructure while sending the wrong message to the domestic technology ecosystem,&#8217; Rakesh Kumar Bhatnagar, director-general, Voice of Indian Communication Technology Enterprise (Voice), told ETTelecom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The usage of single-band 2.4GHz-only devices or access points in the Centre&#8217;s prestigious programs such as BharatNet may impact performance, scalability and sustainability of telecom infrastructure, following top chipset vendors &#8212; Broadcom, Qualcomm, MediaTek and RealTek &#8212; discontinuing technology support, a domestic industry group said. &#8216;The continued use of 2.4GHz-only Wi-Fi products in BharatNet deployments is not merely a technical issue but a strategic oversight. It negatively impacts performance, scalability and the long-term sustainability of the infrastructure while sending the wrong message to the domestic technology ecosystem,&#8217; Rakesh Kumar Bhatnagar, director-general, Voice of Indian Communication Technology Enterprise (Voice), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}